A Conversation With One Of YouTubes First Employees Ryan Carey
YouTube Creators Hub
Dusty Porter
4.7 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In this episode of the YouTube Creators Hub podcast, host Dusty Porter speaks with Ryan Carey, CEO of Better On and one of YouTube's earliest team members. They discuss Ryan's journey from working at YouTube during its early days to founding Better On, a company focused on helping individuals enhance their presence and communication skills through video. The conversation delves into the importance of authenticity, building trust with audiences, and overcoming self-doubt as a creator. Ryan shares valuable insights on how to connect with audiences and the significance of self-awareness in the creative process.
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Ryan Carey is the CEO behind BetterOn, a company dedicated to helping leaders and professionals build authentic presence on video, in person, and across workplaces. A pioneer in the video space, he was one of YouTube's earliest team members, witnessing firsthand the platform's explosive growth and transformative power. After his own journey as a YouTube content creator, Ryan launched BetterOn in 2014, combining his unique insights into video with a mission to elevate workplace communication. Forward thinking companies like Google, IBM, Deloitte, and Red Hat use BetterOn to invest in their high potential people.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I think the final number when Google Aquinas was like 50 or 60 people. |
| 0:04.8 | So we were all in an office in San Mateo, California and San Bruno, California. |
| 0:12.1 | One big room, you had engineering over in that corner. |
| 0:16.4 | You had privacy and safety in that corner. |
| 0:20.4 | You had marketing over there. I was over here. People |
| 0:23.6 | on their first days, it was like, here's a box, this is your desk, put it together, start working. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello and welcome to the YouTube of Creators Hub podcast quickly. We're going to tell you, |
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| 0:47.0 | We record interviews with content creators each and every Friday, and the show continues to grow. |
| 0:52.9 | And I'm so excited about some of the interviews that |
| 0:54.7 | we have ready to release in the first half here of 25. Also, I am a professional YouTube coach. |
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| 1:08.8 | the creator communities group. It's hosted over on our Discord server. |
| 1:12.4 | Five bucks gets you in that group. |
| 1:14.7 | You get access to not only that hundreds of creators, past guests of the show. |
| 1:19.2 | You also get access to the monthly mastermind calls that I host on Zoom. |
| 1:23.4 | We just had one this week for February 2025. |
| 1:26.8 | Those are hosted by me on Zoom one time every month. |
| 1:30.2 | We get on there. |
| 1:31.0 | We do rapid fire questions. |
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